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Added in API level 3

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ViewDebug.CapturedViewProperty

Kotlin |Java

public static abstract @interface ViewDebug.CapturedViewProperty
implements Annotation

android.view.ViewDebug.CapturedViewProperty

This annotation can be used to mark fields and methods to be dumped when the view is captured. Methods with this annotation must have no arguments and must return a valid type of data.

Summary

Public methods
`boolean`	`retrieveReturn()` When retrieveReturn is true, we need to retrieve second level methods e.g., we need myView.getFirstLevelMethod().getSecondLevelMethod() we will set retrieveReturn = true on the annotation of myView.getFirstLevelMethod()

Inherited methods

From interface


        
          java.lang.annotation.Annotation

`abstract Class<? extends Annotation>`	`annotationType()` Returns the annotation interface of this annotation.
`abstract boolean`	`equals(Object obj)` Returns true if the specified object represents an annotation that is logically equivalent to this one.
`abstract int`	`hashCode()` Returns the hash code of this annotation.
`abstract String`	`toString()` Returns a string representation of this annotation.

Public methods

retrieveReturn

Added in API level 3

public boolean retrieveReturn ()

When retrieveReturn is true, we need to retrieve second level methods e.g., we need myView.getFirstLevelMethod().getSecondLevelMethod() we will set retrieveReturn = true on the annotation of myView.getFirstLevelMethod()

Returns
`boolean`	true if we need the second level methods

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Last updated 2026-08-03 UTC.

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